Bob Dylan's 'Gaslight' recordings rekindled by Starbucks

AFP ^ | June 28, 2005 | Staff

[Hi Heels]

I have actually met Dylan. Coffee shop in Ventura, CA on Main Street. I was 20 years old and just coming out of my hippie stage. I burst into tears and threw my arms around him.

Now I'd probably clock him on the head with my purse.

[FoxInSocks]

I first thought of Ingrid Bergman in her 1944 Oscar-winning role in Gaslight. That's a promotion I'd be interested in.

I love her.

[scott says]

I've had this tape for about 25 years, it was released on bootleg cd about 10 years ago.It is a soundboard recording. For years it was the definitive recording of the real early stuff. I know a lot of folks don't appreciate Bob, but if any of you do, and are looking for live cds I have over 700. I have connections and can get pretty much any show, if it was recorded, I can find it. If you think I'm kidding, try me. I don't sell stuff, just trade and get a kick out of hooking folks up with stuff they are looking for.

[randog]

"These archival recordings capture a young Bob Dylan at a pivotal moment in his career when he began to find his voice as an innovative artist and songwriter," the companies said in a statement.

So, this was before Bob learned to sing...;^)

[ElkGroveDan]

I wonder if Starbucks is going to dig up any lost Bachman Turner Overdrive recordings for their cafe revival?

[ElkGroveDan]

So, this was before Bob learned to sing...;^)

He later gave singing lessons to Joe Cocker and Neil Young :-)

[truth_seeker]

"I have actually met Dylan. Coffee shop in Ventura, CA on Main Street. I was 20 years old and just coming out of my hippie stage."

In Dec. 65 or Jan. 66 I saw him at a theater next to the now missing Long Beach Pike.

It was at precisely the time he brought on controversy, by doing accoustic.

The first set was just Bob, on a stool with his voice, his harmonica and his guitar. Folk music.

After a break, the curtains parted to a full rock and roll band, with Bob on accoustic guitar.

I'll be watching for the Dylan CD at Starbucks, where I find some good music. Ray Charles, mentioned in the article, and the latest Van Morrison CD--his best in many years.

[Mr. Mojo]

"I have actually met Dylan. Coffee shop in Ventura, CA on Main Street. I was 20 years old and just coming out of my hippie stage. I burst into tears and threw my arms around him. Now I'd probably clock him on the head with my purse."

Neither response is appropriate.

Dylan went to great lengths to distance himself from that hippie/leftist crowd you were once part of. His last folkie "protest" album was recorded way back in 1963 (before our involvment in the Vietnam War), but unfortunately that (very short) period of his career is what he's most known for. When the leftists tried to turn him into one of their gods he abruptly changed course (in 1965), went electric, and started playing straight-ahead apolitical rock and roll. The commies labeled him "Judus," but Bob didn't care, and was only too happy to disassociate himself from those fools.

He's been mostly apolitical ever since, even through several stylistic (and religious) changes.

[scott says]

I met Bob a couple of years ago. A buddy of mine was road manager for a couple of bands that Tony Ganier( bass player/band leader) was in, he got us backstage passes.Before Bob showed up we had dinner with Maria Muldaur, Rambling Jack Elliot and the band. I lent Maria a sharpie pen and asked for it back, saying I needed it so" when I meet Bob...."...she laughed at me and told me that she has known Bob for 35 years and that she has NEVER seen Bob sign an autograph and that I was dreaming if I thought that he would. Well...I like a good challenge...LONG STORY SHORT...I now proudly display my signed backstage pass and signed tour hat in my music room. Whats with the flying purse ? dude, chill.LOL

[dangerfield]

Also, he became a very public evangelical Christian in 1979.

I think much of his best music has been since then.

Dylan is a legend, but the legend was captured by the left-wing, years and years ago, even though they booed him as a "sell-out" as early as 1966.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

"Now I'm a liberal up to a degree
I want everybody to be free
But if you think I'll let Barry Goldwater
Move in next door and marry my daughter,
You must think I'm crazy.
I wouldn't do it for all the farms in Cuba.

From the Album:
Another Side of Bob Dylan

[Mr. Mojo]

Dylan made three "Christian" albums: Slow Train Coming ('79), Saved ('80), and Shot of Love ('81). All incredibly inspired. But by Infidels ('83) we was already pulling away from it, and by the mid-80s he rarely overtly spoke of religion, either in his songs or in interviews. Religious sensibilities have been present in his music since the beginning, however.

I agree with you -- much of Dylan's later music is overlooked, and it's among the best he's ever recorded. Time Out of Mind ('96) and Oh Mercy ('89) are incredible.

[Mr. Mojo]

Yep, 1964. ....the year before he jettisoned his lefty past.

[Larry Lucido]

He definitely towers over Cat Stevens. Or even Donovan.

[scott says]

I first got into Dylan when I was in high school, right after his gospel albums came out. They are still my favorite albums he ever released.Most people have no clue what Bob is really all about, they just think he is some 60's radical, nothing could be further from the truth.I really got into his music because a lot of it was biblically based, not that all of it is, but lots. People hear "All Along the Watchtower" and think 60's druggy music, but as you may know, Bob lifted that from the Book of Isaiah, chapter 21. If you guys are looking for a cd of a show you saw or anything, let me know..s

[SamAdams76]

Not to be outdown, Dunkin' Donuts has obtained early recordings of the seminal pop band Captain & Tenille. This includes early coffeehouse recordings of such classics as "Muskrat Love", "Do Me Like That One More Time" and "Love Will Keep Us Together" as well as an unreleased cover of Morris Albert's "Feelings."

Captured on tape during Captain & Tenille gigs at Mister Donut, Waffle House and Howard Johnsons in the midwest during the early 1970s, the recordings catch Captain & Tenille at a vulnerable stage in their early career. For example, in one Howard Johnson's performance in Cedar Rapids, Iowa during 1973, the struggling duo were booed and pelted with French Toast.

[dangerfield]

He sang for Pope John Paul a few years ago, I believe.

You're right, there were those great, overtly gospel albums. But before and afterwards, there were always some religious themes.

People will always identify him with those cafe days, apparently, and when they imagined he was leftist.

[Mr. Mojo]

"If you guys are looking for a cd of a show you saw or anything, let me know..s"

Okay. I saw him at the L.A. Forum in '78 and the Santa Monica Civic in '79. If you can get good quality boots of those two shows, I'd be interested.

[dangerfield]

"I first got into Dylan when I was in high school, right after his gospel albums came out. They are still my favorite albums he ever released."

They are certainly among my favorites too (and we must be the same age!) I think of all my Dylan albums, I probably wore out Time Out Of Mind the most, though. I thought it was so dark it was (almost) funny at points. Leonard Cohen has nothing on Bob, when Bob is bummed and thinking he's fixing to die.